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After Oberhof, Julia Simon also wins the Mass Start in Anterselva after an exciting duel with Hanna Oeberg. The Italians pay problems at the shooting range, and finish beyond the fifteenth position in the last individual race before the Pokljuka World Championships.
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The first round is tackled at a fairly fast pace first dictated by Mars Roeiseland and in the second part by Dorothea Wierer who comes out first from the polygon after her 5/5. They fail once and find themselves chasing Julia Simon, Tiril Eckhoff, Elvira Oeberg, Davidova and Tandrevold. Double penalty round for Alimbekava and Vittozzi.
In the second session on the ground a double error arrives for Wierer and Braisaz who find themselves chasing the group of leaders formed by the Swedes Hanna Oberg and Persson, the sparkling Lisa Hauser, Mironova, the Germans Preuss and Hinz, Knotten and the Russian Pavlova. Tiril Eckhoff in comeback at 15 seconds. Roeiseland and Herrmann after a penalty lap are 25 seconds-
It is the Austrian Hauser, winner of the Individual on Thursday, who commands operations in the third lap and then receives the change from the Swedes. There are 4 to get out without errors from the first polygon standing: Mironova, Preuss, Pavlova and Hinz. Roeiseland is not wrong, who is at 15 seconds while Hanna Oeberg is at 21 seconds with Hsuer and Davidova close behind. An error makes Dorothea Wierer slip again to almost a minute while Denise Herrmann collapses with four errors.
In the duel between the Russians and the Germans, Mironova manages to stretch in the fourth lap while Roeiseland hooks up to the train of the first pursuers. The Russian appears at the decisive shooting range with 12 seconds of advantage, they are all wrong while Hanna Oeberg finds herself in the lead with Hauser, at 8 seconds Davidova, Julia Simon and Franziska Preuss, at 17 seconds, after two laps of penalty, Mironova.
Julia Simon joins the two leaders and drags Davidova and Preuss to a five-man finish for the win. The first to yield is Davidova followed by Preuss. In a head to head up to the last meter, Julia Simon prevails two tenths ahead of Hanna Oberg, still on the podium, at 3.5 the Austrian Hauser, Preuss is fourth at 9.0, Davidova fifth at 17.6. Dorothea Wierer (0-2-1-2) is seventeenth at 1.44.2, Vittozzi (2-2-0-0) twenty-seventh at 2.40.1
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SIMON Julia
OEBERG Hanna
HAUSER Lisa Theresa
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